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<P>Honey bees—and the qualities associated with them—have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language. <I>Bees in America</I> is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a varied social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first introduced bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being used by the American military to detect bombs. Early European colonists introduced bees to the New World as part of an agrarian philosophy borrowed from the Greeks and Romans. Their legacy was intended to provide sustenance and a livelihood for immigrants in search of new opportunities, and the honey bee became a sign of colonization, alerting Native Americans to settlers' westward advance. Colonists imagined their own endeavors in terms of bees' hallmark traits of industry and thrift and the image of the busy and growing hive soon shaped American ideals about work, family, community, and leisu

Who reads Bees in America : How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation?

Author

Tammy Horn

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813191638

Category

history

Subjects

Agriculture, Fiction, Reference

Rating

3.84 / 5 (75 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14